Kurt
I couldn’t place the song at first. It was drifting across the courtyard and flaking in the breeze. I wondered where the radio was and why it was playing gringo music. I roused myself and followed the source of the noise.
It wasn’t […]

“You cannot rewrite history! Not one line.”
The Aztecs is a Dr Who story from the show’s high-minded early years, when science-fiction adventures were mixed with more educational historical stories. By the time I started watching Wh[…]

DISCLAIMER: war is never “over”, whether or not you “want” it

(via Kevin Drum)
“According to Fischer, the foundation of American culture was formed from four mass emigrations from four different regions of Britain b[…]

Happy Irony Day!
I think every British kid growing up is only dimly aware that Guy Fawkes is the baddie in his story. On the one hand there’s the burning in effigy thing. On the other, there’s the fact that we commemorate a failure to blo[…]

END-TIMES WATCH : xtian attempts to convert lions[…]

Grumpy Old Men
It’s the theocrats’ world now, so we’d better get used to it. Casting around for something historical to write about, I thought I’d begin at ‘the beginning’ – with the enormous claimed ages of […]

Dem Bones Dem Bones
Channel 4 to show footage of decomposing body – should be gruesomely intriguing.[…]

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
The future has always held a fascination for people, we’ve always imagining what new technology will bring, but particularly in the 1950s through to the 1980s thoughts of the 21st century influenced all aspects of life, f[…]

“The past…now let me tell you about the past…”
Actually, the Month Of The Past would have been a better name for it. We wanted to do a history month on Blog Seven, but felt its scope needed to be a bit wider – now-gone p[…]

In October 2004 Blog Seven was a blog about fear.[…]